The Light and the Dark
22 February 2018Imprint: Bello
Synopsis
The stability and resilience of Lewis Eliot is sharply contrasted with the melancholia of his brilliant colleague, Roy Calvert, in the fourth novel of C. P. Snow’s masterful Strangers and Brothers sequence.
Opening in Cambridge in 1935 and ending in London in 1943, all of Roy’s brief and dazzling academic career is narrated in this powerful study of manic depression. A...
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22 February 2018304 pages
9781509864249Imprint: Bello
Reviews
As full of life as life itselfJohn Betjeman
A masterpiece. It is a bold statement for a critic to make: but I make it and underline it.Richard Church, John O' London's Weekly
